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LORD MACAULAY

(THOMAS BABINGTON).

1800-1859.

Barrister; Edin

burgh Reviewer; M.P.; Member of the Supreme Council of India; Cabinet Minister; poet; essayist; historian; peer.

Milton (in the Edinburgh

Review,' 1825); Lays of William IV. as- 1830

Ancient Rome (1842); His-
tory of England-unfinished
(1849-59). "His pictorial

faculty is amazing.'

cends the
throne, 1830.

The Reform Bill,
1832.

Total Abolition

of Slavery,
1834.

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WRITERS.

WORKS.

CONTEMPORARY DE-
EVENTS.

CADES.

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY.

1811-1863.

Novelist; writer in 'Punch'; artist.

CHARLES DICKENS. 1812-1870.

Novelist.

Third French Re-
public, 1870.

The Paris Sketch-Book Franco-Prussian 1870
(1840); Vanity Fair (1847);
War 1870-71.
Esmond (1852); The New-
comes (1855); The Vir-
ginians (1857). The great-
est novelist and one of the
most perfect stylists of this
century. "The classical
English humorist and sat-
irist of the reign of Queen
Victoria."

William I. of

Prussia made
Emperor of the
Germans at Ver-
sailles, 1871.

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ROBERT BROWNING. 1812

Poet.

JOHN RUSKIN. 1819

Art-critic; essayist; teacher; literary

man.

GEORGE ELIOT. 1819-1880. Novelist; poet; essayist.

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Assassination of 1880
Alexander II.,
1881.

Modern Painters (1843-60);
The Stones of Venice (1851-
53); The Queen of the Air
(1869); An Autobiography
(1885); and very many other Arabi Pasha's Re-
works. "He has a deep,
serious, and almost fanatical
reverence for art.

Scenes of Clerical Life (1858);
Adam Bede (1859); and
many other novels down to
Daniel Deronda (1876);

bellion, 1882-83.

War in the Sou-
dan, 1884.

Murder of Gor-
don, 1884.

Spanish Gypsy (1868); Le- New Reform Bill,
gend of Jubal (1874).

1885.

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Derivations from names of persons, etc., Labials, 5, 6.

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